I have a review of Gentoo 2006.0 up on Linux.com today. Overall, I enjoy playing with Gentoo, but I can’t see using it as my main distro. I enjoy being able to slap in an Ubuntu CD and have a working system within 30 minutes — it takes a little too much time and effort to come away with a working system using Gentoo.
But, I’m glad it’s available nonetheless. The Gentoo philosophy isn’t for everyone, but I’m glad that it’s available for the users who do enjoy that sort of thing.
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I used to use Gentoo until I grew tired of rebuild Firefox or Openoffice or X every time a new release was made. One thing that I really did like about it was how easy it was to build a new package file (ebuild). You could have your own local portage tree with your custom build files. Really made managing a system with odd ball packages or perhaps beta builds much nicer.
I’d have to say that my ideal system these days is OS X + DarwinPorts. DarwinPorts gives me fairly quick access to all that GNU goodness and still gives me the ability to quickly create new packages for software that isn’t yet in ports, like vim 7.0 for instance.
@Jeremy
Did you know that there are binary builds of Firefox and OOo in portage? They’ve been standard for quite awhile now, they’re usually ahead of the source builds even.
You could also just download the official binaries… I did that before the binary portage builds.
OS X is great though, I wish either Gnome or KDE would snap together as well as it does.
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